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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 3 (July 1, 1930)

Refrigerated Reflections

Refrigerated Reflections.

Despite the fact that snow and ice and the other cold collations of the cosmography have prompted poets to release avalanches of avouchment anent the romance of ice cakes. Eskimo pies and chilled livers, you are not dissuade from applying to your auditorium a woof or a weft of the world's wool clip, and encouraging the coalmining industry to the limit of your credit. Therefore, hunger not to emulate the shivering sheik who, imperfectly garbed in a strange device and a good recording voice, essayed to keep a date above the snow line with a flippant flapper named Excelsior, and was only saved from permanent association with the refrigerating industry by the efforts of the St. Bernard free ambulance.

Likewise, tender reader, who is there among those present, who would willingly take his little daughter to sail the wintry sea without bed-socks or a mother's care, as did the skipper of the schooner Hesperus, whose craving for company exceeded his sympathy with the child welfare movement? Whatever way you regard the subject, winter is a big frost.